Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... passes through them all like a creative soul , with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . We A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in ...
... passes through them all like a creative soul , with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . We A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in ...
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... passes . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , -of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied 24 ESSAY I.
... passes . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , -of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied 24 ESSAY I.
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... pass through the whole cycle of experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles ...
... pass through the whole cycle of experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles ...
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... pass by , he tries and sentences them on their merits , in the swift summary way of boys , as good , bad , interesting , silly , eloquent , trouble . some . He cumbers himself never about conse quences , about interests : he gives an ...
... pass by , he tries and sentences them on their merits , in the swift summary way of boys , as good , bad , interesting , silly , eloquent , trouble . some . He cumbers himself never about conse quences , about interests : he gives an ...
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... pass again into his neutral , godlike independence ! Who can thus lose all pledge , and having observed , observe again from the same unaffected , unbiased , unbrib- able , unaffrighted innocence , must always be for- midable , must ...
... pass again into his neutral , godlike independence ! Who can thus lose all pledge , and having observed , observe again from the same unaffected , unbiased , unbrib- able , unaffrighted innocence , must always be for- midable , must ...
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| Title | Essays: First Series Volume 2 of Emerson's complete works : Riverside edition |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | H. Altemus, 1899 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 6 Oct 2015 |
| Length | 322 pages |
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